bubble : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a bubble of air
  

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• noun leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat
  

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• noun a bath in which you add something to foam and scent the bath water
  

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• noun an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles
  

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• noun a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans
  

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• noun a kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles
  

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• noun an allergic contact dermatitis developed around the lips of children who chew bubble gum
  

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• noun a kind of ink-jet printer
  bubble jet printer; bubblejet.
  

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• verb overflow with a certain feeling
  spill over; overflow.
  
  • The children bubbled over with joy
  • My boss was bubbling over with anger

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• noun packaging in which a product is sealed between a cardboard backing and clear plastic cover
  blister pack.
  

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• noun marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell
  

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Bub"ble shell`

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1. (Zoöl.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.

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• verb move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically
  intumesce.
  
  • Gases bubbled up from the earth
  • Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America

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• noun a kind of ink-jet printer
  bubble jet printer; bubblejet.
  

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Bub"bling Jock`

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1. (Zoöl.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

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• verb become bubbly or frothy or foaming
  froth; foam; effervesce; sparkle; fizz.
  
  • The boiling soup was frothing
  • The river was foaming
  • Sparkling water

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• noun an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
  sheesha; kalian; hubbly-bubbly; nargileh; hookah; water pipe; calean; shisha; chicha; narghile.
  
  • a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola

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Hub"ble-bub`ble noun

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1. A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell. = water pipe; hookah

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• noun a nonvolatile storage device that holds information in the form of bubbles on a thin film of magnetic silicate; no longer used in most computers
  

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• noun a bubble formed by a thin soap film
  

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• a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.

  This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. J. C. Shairp.

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